Starbucks Sketches

Sorta rusty today, but I got a decent one of a mom and her baby

Hank Burchill Design: rough faces

Here's some really really rough faces for a dnd character design for a friend

just trying to get some ideas flowing and feel out what sort of things he likes

Places Reward: Justin Ford (2)

So Travis was like "That Gregor Mendel looks like a woman"
my response was to redraw Gregor Mendel as a very manly man

The Lonely Dragon

So I'm working on a children's book, as I mentioned a few months back.
It was written by an 8 year old boy.
When his mom contacted me a few months back with it, I really couldn't turn it down. I'm so glad I didn't, it's absolutely adorable, and I'm having a lot of fun with it.
I'm posting the character design and the first page here but I'm not gonna post full spreads like this because I don't want to give it all away, I just want to show what it's gonna be like and how cute it is.
The writing makes me smile every time I read it over while working on the pages :)

Starbucks People

These are two of my very favourite people I've ever seen at a starbucks
they were both in beverly hills

Starbucks Butts

i spend a lot of time drawing at starbucks
it's great practice cause you've really only got max 30 seconds before a person in line or drinking their coffee moves
This time I picked a terrible spot, and ended up drawing a whole bunch of backs of heads and behinds hahaha
I like the dude haunched over the little laptop, he was pretty entertaining.

wendy

digital speed paint of my room mate's dog

Illuminated A

First assignment for my story illustration class! We had to do an illuminated letter in our own style, medium of our choosing. I went for digital and a critter. It's all done in illustrator, with some texture and color adjusts in photoshop.

California Trees

Some super speedy digital studies of some of the trees I see around Beverly Hills

Stuff from This Week

Work is starting to slow down a little on a game project I'm working on and CTN portfolio deadline is fast approaching. October 15th! also the deadline for the game to be finished, so holy crap! hahaha.. great client though, so I'm not concerned...oddly enough a good client who's not a pushy jerk will make me work faster and better than one who's constantly like "DO THIS RIGHT NOW" and is a wiener about it. Stubbornness... it's a curse.

Anyways, here's some stuff I've done the past week:

A couple illustrations inspired by Lunenburg Nova Scotia. It started out just as fall because Lunenburg is quite pretty in the fall, and LA doesn't have that season it seems. But then I played around with it and got winter, and now I don't know which one I like better... which is funny because I don't know whether I like Lunenburg's winter or fall better, they are both really pretty.




Rain in LA, because I find it so incredibly funny how worked up about the rain they all get. this was drawn from the window of a starbucks on the one day it poured here. I hear they get like... one or two days a year, and I experienced it. It was very comforting, and reminded me of home:



Animal silhouettes and sketches. These are for that game I'm working on. I have final versions of all of these, but I don't want to post them yet, out of respect for the client. He gave me the go ahead to use them in my portfolio, so I'll use it for my personal CTN stuff, but I don't like posting final game assets on the internet prior to the game getting released. So now you all have to buy the game to see what they look like finished haha... and tons of other stuff I've done!





Girls love puppies... just for fun



I also edited the birds to make the composition a bit better:



and that's it! Working on a giant illustration today and potentially on and off for the rest of the week.
I also have a whole sketchbook full of studies from this week from the zoo and starbucks
hitting starbucks every day for warmup drawings, it's like having super fast figure drawing sessions every day. Definitely paying off to warm up I think.

Driftwood

Home-inspired little illustration from tonight

east coast is the best coast :)

Happy Shark Week

I love Shark Week, so I made a drawing of Peggy's Cove while I had some downtime today

Happy Shark Week!

Bus Ghost

Often I'll come up with an idea for a drawing I want to do, but I don't feel I'm good enough yet to manage it, so I put it off, and it pops into my head every now and again, but I try to ignore it. This is one of those drawings. I thought about this about a year ago, and have doodled it like a thousand times in my sketchbook and just this weekend decided to take a break from working to tackle it.

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out I guess, I'm sure I could change some things. I HATE how the baby is dead centred, I tried to find ways to fix it that didn't mess the whole thing up and I couldn't, so I just gave in and accepted that it's not perfect, oh well!

I like the thought that babies can see ghosts.